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ENG 253 - Shakespeare: Selected Plays
A study of ten to twelve plays, selected to represent the range of Shakespeare’s achievement as a playwright. Recommended for non-majors. Not open to students who have taken ENG 453.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 256 - British Women’s Literature
A survey of British women writers and their traditions from the origins to the present.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 271 - The Act of Interpretation
An introduction to critical theory. Study of individual critics or schools of literary theory. Application of these interpretative strategies to literary texts.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 170.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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ENG 280 - Introduction to Film
A survey of the history of motion pictures and an exploration of the rhetoric of film, designed to give students with no prior film study an integrated approach to understanding the moving image and how it functions.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Context and Institutions and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENG 301 - Seminar in Writing Studies
A writing-intensive seminar that combines substantial reflective practice with an introduction to research and scholarship in literacy and writing studies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 201, ENG 315, or ENG 395.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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ENG 308 - Writing Poetry
A course in the writing of poetry, for students of demonstrated ability.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 or permission of instructor. Submission of writing sample.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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ENG 309 - Writing Creative Nonfiction
An intermediate course in such forms of creative nonfiction as memoir, travel literature, autobiography and personal essays.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 201 or ENG 205 or ENG 206 or ENG 315 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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ENG 315 - Research Writing in the Disciplines
Builds on ENG 101 by preparing students for writing-intensive coursework and for senior capstone projects. This course focuses on similarities and differences among the types of peer-reviewed academic research articles that researchers and scholars use to advance knowledge in their fields. Class projects will develop familiarity with and contribute to students’ own academic research writing in their chosen field of study.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Writing Intensive General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and a declared major.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 317 - Business and Technical Writing
Supervised practice in the writing of business and technical reports, professional correspondence, and related materials.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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ENG 336 - Canadian Literature
An intensive study of a major Canadian writer or small group of Canadian writers, or an examination of a major theme in Canadian literature. Specific topic varies from semester to semester. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about Canadian literature while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 341 - Colonial and Early National American Literature
The literatures of colonial America began almost immediately after contact between Europeans and Native Americans in the fifteenth century, disseminated in multiple languages across Europe. These earliest writings were advertisements for empire: tales of adventure, catalogues of wonders, justifications and warnings. By the seventeenth century, new immigrants and American-born settlers were creating a local literature for local consumption, including the great devotional works of the New England Puritans and the first examples of that long-lived American genre, the captivity narrative. This colonial period culminated in the eighteenth century’s American Enlightenment, which gave rise to the Revolution, and was soon followed by the first stirrings of literary nationalism in the early republic. Encompassing three hundred years of history and an international range of authors, this introductory course may include works translated into English and taking such representative forms as the memoir, travel narrative, sermon, and political tract, as well as the more expected literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. A reading-intensive course, it is designed to teach students about a crucial epoch in world history and American literature while creating an opportunity for students to practice reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advances seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 342 - Native American Literature
Surveys literature by Native American authors from a wide range of tribal backgrounds and culture areas. Considers the development of written traditions over time in relation to oral genres, traditional themes and story forms, and situates writing by Native American people in the context of historical and socio-political events and trends in Turtle Island (North America). Provides the opportunity to reconsider stories of colonization and the Anglo-American culture/nation in the light of indigenous perspectives and experience. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach you about the history of Native American writing in English, while giving you the opportunity to practice your reading and research skills in order to prepare you for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 343 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
An introduction to American literature and culture of the nineteenth century, a period of unprecedented violence, vision, and change encompassing some of the most storied names in poetry and prose. Because the historical events and social turmoil of the century is so crucial for an understanding of its greatest authors, the course may include writers and thinkers whose primary significance is not literary-men and women who witnessed or acted in the great events of the age. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a rich, exciting epoch in literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 351 - Medieval English Literature
An introduction to Medieval Literature which involves reading the wild, beautiful, idiosyncratic, and foreign yet strangely familiar works of Chaucer and his English contemporaries. The class will focus on understanding the nature of the medieval world and its expression in the literature of the time, and on developing reading skill in Middle English. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a crucial epoch in literary and linguistic history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars. For more details see course descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 353 - Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
Renaissance suggests a rebirth of classical models, but this period (late 16th and early 17th centuries) is also one of startling innovation. The literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries can be wildly comic and tragic, lyrical and grotesque, epic and domestic, rewriting the medieval and anticipating the modern worlds. Emphasis may vary among genres (drama, lyric, narrative poetry), theme (romance, revenge, rebellion, reverence), and authors (Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton for example). This reading intensive course introduces representative texts from a crucial period in literary history, and it provides students the opportunity to practice reading and research skills in preparation for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 355 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
From sentiment to sadism, astounding change ignited the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, making this period a watershed that marks the transition from Renaissance to Modern. This reading-intensive class will consider literature against the background of this historical change, inheritance, and influence. Works by Pope, Behn, Cavendish, Finch, Congreve, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, and Radcliffe, among others. The focus on reading and research skills will prepare students for work in advance seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 357 - Nineteenth-Century British Literature
This reading intensive course introduces Nineteenth-century British literature in the context of larger political, technological, cultural, and social changes: The expanding publishing market, the growing influence of a literate middle-class, industrialization, urbanization, global capitalism and modern warfare, Britain’s imperial power. Because of the sheer variety of works and genres, emphasis will vary from instructor to instructor, but along with well-known writers like Wordsworth, Austen, or Dickens, students will be introduced to lesser-known authors, popular and influential in their day but too often forgotten since. This course provides students with the opportunity to practice reading and research skills and prepares students for work in advanced seminars. For more details see Course Descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 361 - Modernism
An introduction to modernism, the revolution in literature and culture that took place during the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Because modernism was an international movement expressed in multiple genres, this introductory course may include writers and artists from around the world working in poetry, prose, drama, and film. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a crucial period in literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 363 - Literature of the Postmodern Period
An introduction to literature of the postmodern period, roughly defined as 1945-1989. To call the historical-literary period and writing styles that emerged after WWII “postmodern” can spark a lively argument. But, whatever your position, the fact remains that during this extraordinary times poets, playwrights, and novelists responded to a world changed by WWII in intelligent and challenging ways. Continuing modernist-period fluidity across national borders as well as genres, this reading-intensive course may include writers from around the world working in poetry, prose, and drama. It is designed to teach students about a crucial period in recent literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars. For more details, see course descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 364 - Contemporary Literature
An introduction to literature after 1989 and up to the present. Studying the living tradition can be incredibly exciting. From writers working in our moment we can gain a unique perspective on our world, which may help us to develop a nuanced reading of the broader culture we both consume and participate in. Because contemporary literature often defies easy genre distinctions, and sometimes even the conventional idea of the book, this course may include multiple genres and cross-genre forms, and a variety of media, from sound files to digital literature. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about literature emerging in our time while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 371 - Readings in Literary Theory and Criticism
This reading-intensive course is designed to acquaint students with a wider range of theoretical and critical texts, concepts, and perspectives than can typically be covered in core requirement classes such as English 170 and 271 (both of which are strongly recommended). Emphasis will be given to theories of signification (semiotics), representation (mimesis), and interpretation (hermeneutics) that have informed the practice of literary analysis from antiquity to the present day. The course will also provide students with the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advances seminars such as English 470: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 381 - Themes in Literature
When we approach study of literature thematically, surprising connections can emerge. In this reading-intensive course, we will trace a single, defined theme through multiple literary works. This journey through a particular theme is a delightful way for you to practice your reading and research skills in preparation for advanced seminars. Can be taken more than once for credits, provided that the theme covered is different.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 382 - Major Genres in Historical Perspective
Tragedy, comedy, lyric, novel, play or film: these are just a few of the divisions, called “genres” that we use to distinguish one kind of literary art from another. Continuing and deepening the work begun in 170 and/or 222, Major Genres in Historical Perspectives is a reading-intensive course on the thematic and technical developments of one specific genre within a broader cultural and historical framework. This theoretical approach to genre studies will allow students to spend more time reading in a genre they love, while giving them the opportunity to practice their research skills in preparation for work in advanced seminars. May be taken more than once for credit, provided the genre covered is different.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Elective
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 395 - English Internship
An advanced course in writing and collaborative learning. Students first experience collaborative work in essay writing, critical reading of peers’ essays, and rigorous practice in written and oral criticism. They participate in supervised tutoring in the English Department’s writing center.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and at least one other writing intensive course, a recommendation from a UM faculty member, submission of writing sample and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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ENG 402 - Topics in Writing and Research
A seminar concentrating on a specific topic or concern in undergraduate research and writing. This course emphasizes theoretical and practical approaches to research by engaging participants in a sustained research project. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: English Majors with Junior or Senior standing
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 405 - Topics in Creative Writing
A senior level course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work intensively in a specifically defined genre, form,, or methods of creative writing. May also address the broader issues of production and publication. Sample topics: graphic novel, hypertext, mixed-media, electronic writing, translation, traditional poetic forms, the epic, publication, book-making, magazine editing, the serial poem, the long poem, collaboration. ENG 405 and/or ENG 406 may be taken for credit up to a total of 6 credit hours.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENG 407 - Advanced Fiction Writing
A fiction workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for fiction writers in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 307 and permission of Instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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ENG 408 - Advanced Poetry Writing
A poetry workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for poets in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 308 and permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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ENG 415 - Advanced Report & Proposal Writing
Prepares students to write workplace proposals and reports. Students will spend approximately four weeks analyzing proposals - including grant proposals - and reports. Students will spend the next eight weeks researching and writing a grant proposal, a project proposal, or an analytical report. When possible, students will work on projects for campus clients. The last three weeks of the semester will focus on exploring visual and audio reports, including designing electronic materials that support oral presentations and preparing audio reports using podcast technology. This course will be taught as a workshop with student writers sharing drafts, providing peer feedback, and working as collaborators. Appropriate for senior students in the Technical/Professional Writing track; for graduate students; and for professionals interested in examining the genre of report writing.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 317 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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ENG 416 - Technical Editing & Document Design
Focuses on print and online editing, including the use of traditional proofreading marks and online techniques, document layout and design, principles of copywriting, and the study of style manuals. Follows two lines of study: one of editing / text crunching practices and one of print document design principles and practices related to the editing of documents. The cornerstone of the course is producing a newsletter or other document for a client.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 317 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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ENG 418 - Topics in Professional Writing
Topics vary according to changes in the field, expertise of the faculty, and needs of the students. Possible topics include editing, document design and desktop publishing, and professional writing in intercultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits in writing, including ENG 317, and permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENG 429 - Topics in Literature and Language
Studies in the various topics concerning literature connected to faculty research interests (for example, utopian literature, the graphic novel, revenge in literature) or in issues pertaining to questions of language and literature, such as modern grammar, history of the English language, Old and Middle English, or theories of semiotics and linguistics brought to literary analysis. Specific topic varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit as long as the topic is different.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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ENG 440 - American Seminar
A seminar on an American writer or writers or a focused epoch or movement in American literature. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENG 445 - The American Novel
Readings from the major American novelists: Stowe, Melville, James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, and Faulkner, among others. Focus on thematic, technical, and narrative developments in the 19th and 20th century American novel.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 459 - British Seminar
A seminar on a British writer or writers or a focused epoch or movement in British literature. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 460 - Major Authors
An in-depth seminar of from one to three major writers. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfied the Ethics and the Writing Intensive General Education requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly offered
Credits: 3
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ENG 470 - Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism
Studies in the history of literary criticism, in selected theoretic perspectives, or in the application of specific critical approaches. Specific topic varies from year to year.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENG 471 - Literature, Gender, and Gender Theory
Introduction to gender theory and issues of gender as reflected in the reception, interpretations, and transmission of literary texts. Emphasis on cultural assumptions surrounding gender, which involve both women and men.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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ENG 490 - Research Seminar in Literature
A seminar course on a small body of primary literary texts and the critical communities concerned with them. Students propose and write original researched papers that demonstrate knowledge of current research in the field, using appropriate research methods and conventions of scholarly bibliography.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 and 6 hours of 300 or 400 level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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ENG 496 - Field Experience in Professional Writing
Students work with businesses, professions, and other organizations approved by the department. The work in the course varies with each student enrolled and with the needs of the cooperating employer but normally involves either research, public relations, reporting, editing, interviewing, indexing, or other allied activity requiring skill in reading and writing. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credit hours.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: 9 hours of writing including ENG 317 and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-6
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ENG 497 - Independent Study in English
Advanced study and research in literature and/or theory not covered by other courses.
Prerequisites: Senior Standing and permission of the instructor. May not be repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-3
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ENG 499 - Capstone Experience in English
Pre-professional experience supervised by an English faculty member, attached to an appropriate 3 credit English course (i.e. completion of a substantial critical paper based upon content of a 400-level literature course; a semester tutoring in the Writing Center after ENG 395: English Internship; ENG 496: Field Experience; or completion of a finished manuscript after an appropriate 400-level creative writing course.
(Pass/Fail Grade Only.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: Senior English major and permission of department
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 0
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FYS 100 - First-Year Seminar
Introduction to UMaine resources, academic programs and strategies for achieving academic success and is taught by students’ academic advisors. Activities designed to foster exploration and evaluation of interests, goal and abilities and their relationship to potential majors and careers.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
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LAS 150 - Success in College
In this course, you will work closely with a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty or staff member. You and your classmates will learn how to join an intellectual conversation at a significantly higher level than you have been accustomed to in high school. As a first-year student, you will join an academic community of thinkers, learners and researchers who are committed to achieving and maintaining the rigors and rewords of a liberal arts education. Through active participation in this course, you will acquire the skills necessary for success in college and, therefore, life. The goals of the course are the following:
- Discuss and practice basic college study skills.
- Provide an introduction to responsible conduct at the University of Maine, including how to communicate appropriately with faculty and professional staff.
- Discuss the importance of attendance, accountability, perseverance and practice engagement in academic planning/management for success.
- Overview of the many campus academic and social resources.
- Introduce students to the necessity of studying and interpreting primary sources.
- Instill, through practice, the ability to express themselves cogently.
- Enhance students’ ability to communicate their ideas in a professional manner.
Prerequisites: 1st year College of Liberal Arts students
Course Typically Offered: Every year
Credits: 1
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FSN 101 - Introduction to Food and Nutrition
A survey of food and nutrition principles, including the influence of food patterns on health and physical performance; description of a balanced diet; study of the nutrients, interrelationships, sources, effects of processing and storage, food safety, fads, controversies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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FSN 103 - Science of Food Preparation
Basic food preparation skills. The relationship between structure, composition and nutritive value of foods. Lec 2, Lab 2.
Prerequisites: FSN 101, Food Science and Human Nutrition major or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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FSN 121 - Brewing with Food Science
This course is designed to utilize the process of making beer as a model to engage students in thinking about the biology, chemistry and processing aspects of the foods they consume. The course will focus on the process of beer making as well as the ingredients that go into beer and their functions. Other topics will include the history of beer (from world and U.S. perspectives), styles of beer and a beer judge’s perspective of beer.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Application of Scientific Knowledge Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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FSN 202 - Foodservice Management
An overview of the foodservice industry including quantity food production and service, designing physical facilities and administration of foodservice facilities. Topics covered include food and worker safety, menu planning, purchasing, receiving, storage, production, assembly, distribution, service, facility design and equipment, management functions and financial principles. Lec 3
Prerequisites: FSN 103 and MAT 115 or MAT 122
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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FSN 230 - Nutritional and Medical Terminology
Fundamentals of vocabulary for nutritionists and other health professionals. Web-based.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1
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FSN 238 - Applied Food Microbiology and Sanitation
Microbiology as it applies to the causes and control of food spoilage; issues of food safety and sanitation in food systems. Upon completion of the course, students will be eligible for a ServSafe Manager certification. The official examination will be given on campus (Orono) during the week of final exams as scheduled.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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FSN 265 - Functional Concepts in Nutrition
A functional approach to food and nutrition principles, including detailed review of digestion and absorption; the influence of food patterns on health and physical performance; description of a balanced diet; study of the nutrients, interrelationships, sources and health benefits.
Prerequisites: FSN 101, BIO 100, BIO 208 and CHY 121 or BMB 207
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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FSN 270 - World Food and Nutrition
Investigation of the adequacy of world food supplies, and of the contributions to malnutrition made by poverty, government policies, and population growth.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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FSN 301 - Life Cycle Nutrition
Principles of nutrition applied to needs of individuals throughout life. Study of relationship among nutrition, growth, development, and aging with emphasis on physical and psychosocial influences on nutritional status. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing and a grade of C- or better in BMB207 or CHY 121; BIO 208 or BIO 200; BMB 208 or CHY 122; and FSN 101.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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FSN 305 - Foods Laboratory
The Foods Laboratory will focus on principles of quantity cooking, recipe modification and standardization, food preservation, and food processing. Course will include field trips during class hours.
Prerequisites: FSN 202
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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FSN 330 - Introduction to Food Science
Covers general characteristics of raw food materials, principles of food preservation, processing factors which influence quality, packaging, water and waste management and sanitation. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: BMB 207 or CHY 121 and BIO 100 (prerequisite or corequisite).
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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FSN 340 - Food Processing Laboratory
An introduction to thermal processing, freezing, dehydration, extrusion and curing as applied to food products in the laboratory. Lab 3
Corequisites: FSN 330.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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FSN 397 - Independent Studies
Independent studies in specific areas of food management, food science and human nutrition.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-6
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FSN 401 - Community Nutrition
Examines human needs and delivery systems within community setting. Focus on designing, implementing, and evaluating nutrition education programs or intervention projects. Field experience. Lec 2, Lab 4. Course will include field trips during class hours.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: FSN 410 and a grade of C or better in FSN 301
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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FSN 410 - Human Nutrition and Metabolism
Science of human nutrition is studied, stressing body metabolism as integrated with organ function for normal individuals, and requirements for energy and nutrients.
Prerequisites: BIO 208 or BIO 200, and a C- or better in BMB 322.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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FSN 412 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I
Develops skills in clinical nutrition assessment, therapeutic diet calculations, and nutrition support. Emerging areas of nutrition in relation to disease prevention and treatment will be discussed.
Corequisites: FSN 410
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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FSN 420 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II
Metabolic and physiological alterations of disease processes. Modification of normal diets to treat specific diseases. Development of nutrition care plans. Lec 4.
Prerequisites: FSN 412 and NUR 303.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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FSN 425 - Contemporary Issues in the Food Industry
A writing intensive and discussion based course on current topics and recent developments affecting the food industry. Includes readings, research, and discussion. Students prepare position papers, a non-technical paper for a lay audience, and a major research paper over the course of the semester.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: FSN 330.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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FSN 430 - Counseling and Diet Therapy
Nutrition counseling theory and techniques including patient interviews and diet education sessions. Calculate diet modifications for different disease states. Develop patient education materials.
Prerequisites: FSN 301
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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FSN 436 - Food Law
Examination and discussion of federal and state laws and regulations applying to the processing, handling, distribution and serving of food products.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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FSN 438 - Food Microbiology
Examines the importance of microorganisms in food processing, spoilage, and preservation; the role of microorganisms in fermentation and production of protein, enzymes, and other products; food as a vehicle of infection and intoxication. FSN 438 and FSN 528 cannot both be taken for credit. Lec 3
Prerequisites: BMB 300.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd years.
Credits: 3
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FSN 439 - Food Microbiology Laboratory
This course contains a series of experiments to allow students to perform and observe fundamental principles and practices of food microbiology. Students will work in the lab to execute the exact procedure utilized by the USDA/FDA for the detection and enumeration of microorganisms in food. FSN 439 and FSN 529 cannot both be taken for credit.
Prerequisites: BMB 305 and Food Science Concentration
Corequisites: FSN 438
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd years.
Credits: 2
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FSN 440 - Utilization of Aquatic Food Resources
Utilization and food quality of wild and farmed aquatic animals including production, chemical/physical properties, nutritional value, post-harvest changes, processing systems, regulatory issues, by-product utilization and food safety. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: BIO 100 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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FSN 450 - Food Biotechnology
Introduction to methods and tools applied to the production of biotechnology-derived foods and food ingredients. Discussion of food safety, product quality, consumer acceptance, regulatory oversight and ethical issues regarding the use of biotechnology to enhance the food supply. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: BIO 100 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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FSN 482 - Food Chemistry
Study of the composition, structure, and properties of foods and chemical changes occurring during processing and utilization. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: BMB 322 or CHY 252.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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FSN 483 - Food Chemistry Laboratory
Laboratory exercises covering the principles presented in FSN 482. Lab 3.
Corequisites: FSN 482
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 1
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FSN 485 - Introduction to Food Engineering Principles
Principles of biological and physical sciences related to food processing systems. General concepts of fluid flow, mass and energy balances, heat transfer, refrigeration, freezing, and psychrometrics. Overview of current practices in food engineering, with specific food industry examples. Course will include field trips during class hours. Course will include field trip during class hours.
Prerequisites: FSN 330 and junior standing within the FSN major, or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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FSN 486 - Food Engineering Laboratory
Principles of biological and physical sciences related to food processing systems, concepts of materials and energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, use of engineering principles in design of the processes and equipment for processing and preservation of food products.
Corequisites: FSN 485.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, odd years
Credits: 1
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FSN 489 - Senior Project in Food Science and Human Nutrition
A research project will be conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and an oral presentation of results are required.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 100 - Introduction to Forest Biology
Introductory concepts related to forest plants, animals, environment and ecology. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences requirement when taken with SFR 102.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 220 - Environment and Society
Introduces the concepts and principles necessary to understand the connections between human behavior and environmental conditions. The course includes a review of the conservation and environmental movements in the United States, tracing changing American values towards forests and other natural resources over time. Students learn how to critically analyze the social, economic, and environmental aspects of various case studies concerning society-environment connections by evaluating diverse information sources.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 407 - Forest Ecology
Biological principles and environmental factors governing the natural establishment and development of forest trees and stands. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: FTY 107 or BIO 464 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 408 - Silviculture
Theory and practice of controlling the composition, growth, quality and regeneration of forest stands for human benefit. NOTE: Because of overlap, SFR 408 and SFR 509 cannot both be taken for degree credit.
Corequisites: SFR 407
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 409 - Forest Ecology and Silviculture Field Laboratory
Measurement, assessment and analysis of forest vegetation from a biological and silvicultural perspective. Designed to develop understanding and proficiency in: silvical properties of northeastern tree species; forest regeneration, succession and stand dynamics; prescribing silvicultural treatments; and formulating silvicultural systems. Weekly labs and several one-day field trips.
Prerequisites: WLE 200 or concurrent enrollment in SFR 407.
Corequisites: SFR 408
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 2
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SFR 455 - Bioenergy Sources, Systems and Environmental Effects
A detailed introduction to the use of biomass for bioenergy and includes a broad review of biomass sources, processing systems, human health effects, potential environmental damage, pollution abatement, energy generating systems and the general effects of using renewable and non-renewable sources of energy on the human population. Common definitions, units and the basic thermodynamics of biomass use are discussed. Environmental issues including greenhouse gas emissions are examined along with the benefits and environmental concerns related to using renewable sources of bioenergy. Specific examples, volatile organic chemical release and energy use in drying forest resources are included. Scheduled labs involve field trips. Students enrolling in the course should have passed at least one course meeting the general requirement for science with lab or application of science.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and Environment Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years.
Credits: 3
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SFR 457 - Tree Pests and Disease
Applies concepts of tree disease and its development to their roles in forest dynamics and management. Relevant characteristics of tree pests are covered. Concepts are applied to common disease complexes found in Maine and other regions of North America. (Because of overlap SFR 457 and SFR 557 cannot both be taken for degree credit)
Prerequisites: BIO 100 or SFR 100
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 458 - Tree Pests and Disease Lab
Identification of tree health problems and their management options. Course may include field work during and outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: BIO 100 or SFR 100 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 498 - Senior Research I
An original investigation of a problem in Forest Ecosystem Science, under the guidance of a faculty member. Students will select an area of study, perform a literature search and prepare a written study plan for their research.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: Permission and junior standing in Forest Ecosystem Science and Conservation.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 2
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SFR 499 - Senior Research II
Students will complete the research initiated in SFR 498 and prepare a written final report. The completed project should demonstrate the student’s ability to understand and apply scientific principles in research.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: SFR 498 and senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 2
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SFR 346 - Special Problems in Forest Operations, Bioproducts, and Bioenergy
Original investigation in forest engineering, the subject to be chosen after consultation with the staff. Open to high-ranking juniors and seniors.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 395 - Internship for Forest Operations, Bioproducts and Bioenergy
A professional activity under the general supervision of an experienced professional with a high degree of responsibility placed on the student. Learning objectives are pre-established and agreed upon between the faculty coordinator and the placement supervisor. Not normally repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 398 - Field Experience in Forest Operations, Bioproducts and Bioenergy
A field experience is a professional activity participated in by students under the supervision of a practicing professional in the field. A high degree of responsibility is placed on the student for developing learning objectives and securing the approval of a faculty member for academic credit for the learning involved. May be repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 401 - Timber Harvesting
Examine and analyze timber harvesting practices in the United States and Canada with special emphasis on Maine. Discussion of harvest methods and systems, production, and regulations. Because of overlap, FSC 401 and FSC 502 cannot both be taken for degree credit. Lec 2, Lab 3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 403 - Forest Roads
Design, construction, and maintenance of forest road systems and bridges, examination of road-vehicle interactions, and analysis of forest products transportation. Lec 2, Lab 3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 404 - Forest Operations Planning and Analysis
Forest operations planning and analysis procedures, particularly as they pertain to timber harvest planning and administration in the context of an appreciation for other forest values, as well as social and environmental constraints.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: FSC 301, FSC 403, FSC 405 and WSC 425 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 453 - Biocomposite Materials
A comprehensive analysis of the influence of materials and processing parameters on the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of biocomposite materials. Principles of adhesion and adhesives technology and their impact on biocomposite manufacture and performance will be addressed. Laboratories will provide practical experience in the manufacture and evaluation of a variety of biocomposites produced using hot pressing, cold pressing, extrusion, and injection molding. Lec 3, Lab 3
Prerequisites: CHY 121 and CHY 123; SFR 215, SFR 450 and PHY 107 or PHY 111.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 4
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SFR 464 - Forest Resources Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
This is a broadly based course with multiple facets related to the business aspects of forest resource transactions between buyers and sellers; the marketing of forest resources and the development and management of a forest resource related business. The course includes the principles of contractual agreements, detailed information about the markets for forest resources both local and international, the basic tenets of entrepreneurship and the fundamentals of business ownership, planning and management. In addition to basic lectures and projects, practitioners discuss their experiences and share information about business management, contracts, the ethics of the buyer-seller interactions, and the marketing of products. A semester project requires at least one field visit outside of scheduled times. Students enrolling in the course should have passed at least one course meeting the general education requirement for science with lab or application of science. Course may have field trips during class times.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 101 - Introduction to Forest Resources
A week-long field course designed to introduce students to the forest and its components, its ecology, and its use by society.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences Requirement when taken with SFR 111 and SFR 112.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 102 - Structure and Function of Woody Plants Laboratory
Introductory concepts on the anatomy and structure of woody plants with an emphasis on the relationship between form and function.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences requirement when taken with SFR 100.
Corequisites: SFR 100 or PSE 100 or BIO 100
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 103 - Introduction to Forest Resource Professions
Introduction and overview of global, North American, and Maine forest resources, current and historical use by humans, history of forest regulation and policy, forest stewardship and land ethics, measurement and economics of forest resources, history and development of forest resource professions, and career options and professional societies in forest resources. Course may have field trips during class times.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 106 - Forest Land Navigation and Outdoor Preparedness
A hands on, in the field introduction to the basics of forest land navigation for students majoring in natural resources. Natural resource professionals often work alone or in small teams in remote locations and off trail. Preparation and planning are the key to safe, successful fieldwork. The course stresses the use of topographic maps and imagery commonly used by natural resource professionals and how to use them in conjunction with compasses and GPS units. This course does not cover wilderness first aid. Lec 1 Lab 3
Prerequisites: SFR 101 or Permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 107 - Forest Vegetation
An introduction to the identification, distribution, taxonomy, silvics and utilization of North American tree species. Emphasis on the dominant forest cover types typical of each region of the U.S. together with their associated shrub and herbaceous communities. Site affiliations and the relationships to selected vertebrate wildlife species are included. Course may include field work during and outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: Majors in Forest Operations, Bioproducts, & Bioenergy; Forestry; Parks, Recreation and Tourism; and Ecology & Environmental Science with a concentration in Forest Ecosystem Science
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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